I Have Found Out One Thing And

Having Read The Histories Of Other Countries, I Saw That Expansion Was Everything, And That The World's Surface Being Limited, The Great Object Of Present Humanity Should Be To Take As Much Of The World As It Possibly Could.

You Are An Englishman, And Have Subsequently Drawn The Greatest Prize In The Lottery Of Life.

To Think Of These Stars That You See Overhead At Night, These Vast Worlds Which We Can Never Reach. I Would Annex The Planets If I Could; I Often Think Of That. It Makes Me Sad To See Them So Clear And Yet So Far.

The Real Fact Is That I Could No Longer Stand Their Eternal Cold Mutton.

In Order To Save The 40,000,000 Inhabitants Of The United Kingdom From A Bloody Civil War, We Colonial Statesmen Must Acquire New Lands To Settle The Surplus Population, To Provide New Markets. [...] The Empire, As I Have Always Said, Is A Bread And Butter Question.